baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2286321-A (GB)
Title: Data transmission to a mass audience
Inventor: BEAUDRY MICHEL
IPC: H04H20/28
Filed: 1995-01-10
Abstract: A method of data assembly for distribution of the data via a mass audience distribution system 50, comprises storing in a random access memory 38 packets of data 36 which are to be transmitted to the audience, storing in a first address table 42 a sequence of memory addresses of the data for transmission of the data in the sequence, progressively reading at 44 the first table to retrieve the addresses of the sequence, reading the memory 38 to retrieve the packets of data 36 in the sequence, and transmitting the read packets to the audience in real time. Broadcast parameter data are stored in a second table 39 in a RAM 40 and a processor 32 reads table 39 and constructs table 42. Table 39 includes pointers to the address in RAM 38 where packets 36 start. The data is combined with video signals at 48 for cable Tv broadcasts to subscribers 51. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2286447-A (GB)
Title: Drying apparatus
Inventor: MCLYNN BERNARD
IPC: F26B9/06
Filed: 1995-02-03
Abstract: A building 1 has end access doors 2 and its interior is divided into four cubicle 3 and a lobby 4. Each cubicle has an overhead gantry 5 leading from the cubicle to the lobby. Suspended from each gantry is the cubicles door 6 and a clothes hanging rail 7. Once the door is drawn open, the hanging rail can be accessed from one side in the lobby for hanging of wet clothes. For heating each cubicle, it is provided with an electrically heated oil filled convector radiator 9 around which is provided a mesh 10 to prevent clothes placed in the cubicle from being scorched on the radiator. The doors have coin freed locks which permit access to the cubicles and switch on an electrical circuit for the heater for a predetermined period. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2299954-A (GB)
Title: A filter sock
Inventor: HARTLEY PHILIP JOSEPH
IPC: B01D29/11
Filed: 1995-03-29
Abstract: A filter sock for use with a filter frame in a milk filtering apparatus is formed by folding a length of non-woven material about its longitudinal centre line (11) and then heat welding the longitudinal edge portions (12,13) together to secure the edge portions. The in use bottom transverse edge portions (15) are lap stitched together to give a stitched seam (16).
Patent GB-2288672-A (GB)
Title: Liquid crystal display
Inventor: MOCHIZUKI AKIHIRO
IPC: G02F1/1337
Filed: 1995-04-11
Abstract: A liquid crystal display device 11 includes a substrates 11A, 11B each of which carry an orientation film 13A, 13B and between which is a ferroelectric liquid crystal layer 14. The device is constructed so that it has stored internal energy. Specifically, the ferroelectric liquid crystal layer 14 is orientated so that is in first direction adjacent one substrate and at between 0.5 DEG  and 45 DEG  to that direction adjacent the other substrate. Alternatively, the chiral pitch of the ferroelectric liquid crystal may set so that it is less than 3 times the thickness of the liquid crystal layer. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2293487-A (GB)
Title: Attacking heat sinks to integrated circuits
Inventor: SCHWEGLER TIM
IPC: H01L23/40
Filed: 1995-07-28
Abstract: A heat spreader 14 with a dove-tail edge 13 is attached to an upper surface of an integrated circuit package 12. The bottom surface of a heat sink 18 as a dove-tail feature that matingly corresponds to the dove-tail edge 13 of the heat spreader 14, such that the heat sink can be secured to the heat spreader. The heat sink is prevented from sliding off of the heat spreader by a clip 24. A fan 28 may be attached to the top surface of the heat sink using a clip 30 that attaches to an outer edge of the heat sink or by making the outer two fins on the heat sink slightly taller than the fan and with an inward dove-tail so that the fan can slide snugly between the top of the inner fins and the dove-tails of the outer two fins. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2292624-A (GB)
Title: Output voltage controlling circuit for a negative charge pump
Inventor: KIM JOO YOUNG
IPC: G05F3/24
Filed: 1995-08-17
Abstract: An output voltage controlling circuit 20 for a negative charge pump 10 which controls the output voltage of the charge pump 10 using the breakdown point of a PMOS transistor for high voltage P4 connected between the output terminal of the pump 10 and a reference voltage generation circuit 30. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2305596-A (GB)
Title: Mobile telephone holder
Inventor: OTHO-BRIGGS THOMAS DIXON
IPC: A45F3/14
Filed: 1995-09-28
Abstract: The holder has a shoulder strap 1 and back strap 4 to support a mounting plate 2 onto which a mobile telephone carrier X is attached. Strap 3 is connectible to a belt in use. The holder is worn with the carrier located at the front of the wearer (Fig. 2/2).
Patent GB-2307051-A (GB)
Title: An equipment for testing electronic circuitry
Inventor: NELSON ALAN JOHN
IPC: G06F11/22
Filed: 1995-11-06
Abstract: An equipment for testing electronic circuitry comprising: test connections to said circuitry; measurement means for generating test signals for application to said circuitry and monitoring response signals produced by the circuitry in response to the test signals, said test signals being applied and said response signals being received by way of said test connections; switches for switching the test signals generated to said test connections and the response signals produced to said measurement means; means defining the settings of said switches for a current test of a series of tests required to be performed on said circuitry; first memory means for storing the switch settings for the next test of said series following said current test; second memory means for storing the switch settings for the entire series of tests; and sequencer means for transferring (i) the next switch settings from said first memory means to said means defining and (ii) the switch settings for the test of said series following said next test from said second memory means to said first memory means, said sequencer means initiating the transferring in response to the receipt of a trigger signal from said measurement means indicating that test signals for said next test will be applied to said circuitry after a predetermined time. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2316916-A (GB)
Title: Sunshades for an infant's pushchair
Inventor: BONNEY SARAH MARGARET
IPC: B62B9/14
Filed: 1996-09-02
Abstract: Two additional sunshades 3 for an infants pushchair 1 attach to a conventional canopy 2. The sunshades 3 may be folded when not in use and secured to the pushchair body 5. The shades may be attached to the canopy by stitching or other means, such as hook and loop material.
Patent GB-2306867-A (GB)
Title: Method of optimising the transmission of signals
Inventor: MANGOLD PETER
IPC: H04N7/26
Filed: 1996-10-15
Abstract: With a method for optimising the transmission of signals, in particular video signals, via a channel having a predetermined channel transfer rate after source coding for data reduction and channel coding, during which redundancy R 1 , R 2 is added to the source-coded signals RV1, RV2 as fault protection, at least one quality parameter QP1, QP2 of the transmitted and decoded signals is measured. The ratio between the source accuracy of source coding and the added redundancy is varied in opposite directions to optimise transmission as a function of the measured quality parameter.
Patent GB-2306906-A (GB)
Title: Fixing method
Inventor: SHIRAISHI MASASHI
IPC: C09J5/06
Filed: 1996-01-19
Abstract: A method for fixing members (71,73) together includes a step of forming a resister pattern (74) on one of the members adjacent the adhesive (72), inserting a thermosetting adhesive (72) between the members to be bonded with each other, and a step of flowing a current through the resister (74) so that the adhesive is cured due to Joule effect caused by the current flowing through the resister (74).
Patent GB-2309802-A (GB)
Title: Two-speed motor control system
Inventor: AHMADI BENHAM JAVAD
IPC: B60S1/08
Filed: 1997-01-30
Abstract: A two speed motor M eg for a windscreen wiper has a high speed brush 2 and a low speed brush 1 and a sequence control device 8 comprising a control track driven in synchronism with the motor. When high speed operation is selected S1, the control track operates to cause the motor to be driven alternately at high and low speed at desired intervals in the rotation of the motor. The aim is to reduce the speed of the motor when the wiper approaches the extremes of its motion.
Patent GB-2313829-A (GB)
Title: Carton with secured locating means
Inventor: CAMPBELL GEOFFREY
IPC: B65D5/50
Filed: 1997-06-04
Abstract: A carton 11 for receiving a product, eg a pie 14 with peripheral rim 15, has a sleeve section comprising a base (17 fig 3), top 16 and a pair of sides 18, (19 fig 3), and a pair of oppositely disposed end closure means 23, at least one of which has a projecting portion 22 projecting inwardly into the sleeve section to engage the product, eg at the top of the pie rim 15, retaining it relative to the base. The projection portions 22 are held from moving towards the top 16 of the carton 11, incase the carton 11 is upturned, by spacer means 29 thus protecting the pie 14 from damage due to contact with the top 16. Preferably a projecting portion 22 is hingedly connected to each end closure portion 23. The spacer means and projecting means may be interengaged with a tab 32 and a slot 24 arrangement, the projecting means engaging an aperture (53 figs 6, 7) of an end side flap 28, or an extension (61 figs 8, 9) of the projecting means may engage the top 16. The carton 11 is preferably made from a single blank (figs 1,4, 6, 8).
Patent GB-2327668-A (GB)
Title: Dispensing device
Inventor: CLARKE STEPHEN WILLIAM
IPC: A47F1/08
Filed: 1997-07-29
Abstract: A dispensing device has a housing (10) which is divided into an upper loading chamber (38) and a lower dispensing chamber (40) by means of a shutter (32) which is slidably mounted in the housing. The upper and lower chambers (38, 40) are provided with a respective hinged lid (22, 34) to allow access. The shutter (32) may be withdrawn to allow the contents of the upper loading chamber (38) to fall into the dispensing chamber (40). The front wall of the loading chamber (38) is transparent to enable a person to determine readily that the loading chamber is empty and should be reloaded. The slide can be transparent, have a barcode (48, Fig 2) to identify products e.g. rivets and can have a writing surface (44) coverable by a plastic surface (44).
Patent GB-2327818-A (GB)
Title: Switching control arrangement for a multilevel convertor
Inventor: AINSWORTH JOHN DESMOND
IPC: H02J3/18
Filed: 1997-07-29
Abstract: A switching control arrangement for a multilevel convertor minimises the harmonic content of the convertor voltage or current by an open-loop and/or a closed-loop control of the timing of the switching pattern of the GTOs or transistors associated with the energy-storage components (e.g. capacitors) in the convertor. In a first open-loop arrangement the convertor current is quantized over its working range and different threshold values are provided in dependence on the quantization values of the current. In a second open-loop arrangement a continuous, non-quantized control is provided based on at least a quadratic approximation to the desired current-dependent behaviour of the GTO switching angles. In a third, closed-loop arrangement, different GTO-switching threshold levels are provided as controlled by a Fourier integration process involving the nulling of those harmonics desired to be nulled. The control arrangement is applicable to chain or stacked-capacitor multilevel convertors and can be employed in VAR compensator applications or applications in which the convertor draws real power as well as reactive power.
Patent GB-2316315-A (GB)
Title: Finger support for manicuring
Inventor: MULAISHO PATRICK
IPC: A45D29/22
Filed: 1997-08-20
Abstract: A portable finger location and support device for use during manicuring comprises an elongate triangular section body 1 bearing a series of recesses 2-5 extending from a common edge into the two adjacent sides (see also Fig 1) for receiving the fingers of a left or right hand gripping the device. An additional recess 1 is provided at one end for the thumb. A nail file 6 may be provided at the other end and a sharpener for cosmetic pencils may be built in.
Patent GB-2323891-A (GB)
Title: Holder for fibrous product
Inventor: RENWICK RICHARD
IPC: A44B18/00
Filed: 1998-02-11
Abstract: A holder primarily for retaining thereon a non-woven fibrous pad (12) comprises a base member (10) of a resilient elastomeric material and a plurality of hook members (14) integrally moulded with the base member (10) to project from a surface thereof, each hook member (14) including a stem portion (16) on the free end of which remote from the base member (10) are formed at least one barb portion (20) extending laterally from the stem portion (16), some of the stem portions (16) being longer than others of the stem portions (16).
Patent GB-2327833-A (GB)
Title: Transmitting two parallel channels using code division
Inventor: PEHKONEN KARI
IPC: H04J13/20
Filed: 1998-05-29
Abstract: To simultaneously transmit data related to two channels using code division - data related to a first channel (DTCH) are spread parallely using a first spreading code (C I ) and a second spreading code (C Q ), - data related to a second channel (PCCH) are spread parallely using a first spreading code (C I ) and a second spreading code (C Q ), - the power level of a signal representing said data related to the second channel (PCCH) after the spreading is changed (G) with respect to the power level of a signal representing the data related to the first channel (DTCH) after the spreading, and - a transmission is compiled from spread data related to the first channel and spread data related to the second channel the power level of which has been changed.
Patent GB-2336723-A (GB)
Title: Connector assembly for multiple coaxial cables
Inventor: CHARLES STUART ALAN RHYS
IPC: H01R13/658
Filed: 1998-06-12
Abstract: A connector assembly comprises a casing 3a, 3b, coaxial cables 6 to which connectors 7 are attached, a block 8 in which the connectors are located, and an earth strip or earth strips 10a, 10b attached to the connectors and to the casing. The strip(s) may have a spring finger 12 for each connector 7. Alternatively, a part of the outer case of a coaxial cable 6 may be contacted by each spring finger 12. The casing may be made of metal or metallised plastics. In a further alternative the strips and casing may be integral.
Patent GB-2341887-A (GB)
Title: Multi truss adaptor
Inventor: JAMES PAUL
IPC: E04H3/24
Filed: 1998-09-22
Abstract: The adapter is comprised of six parts; two 'U' shaped brackets, two flat bars and two bolts with self-locking nuts. The Multi Truss Adapter can be assembled in such a way that it can be used to support trussing manufactured with two, three or four tubes. In the two-tube configuration the truss adapter is used as shown in Figure 5. In the four-tube configuration it can be used in a manner similar to that shown in Figure 2. In the three tube configuration it can be used with the apex up as in Figure 2, or down, as in Figure 5. The additional mounting adapter, can be bolted on to a 'U' bracket, as in figure 5 or to one of the flat bars, as in Figures 1 and 2.
Patent GB-2332143-A (GB)
Title: A head restraint assembly
Inventor: MACANDREW KENNETH DOUGLAS ALEX
IPC: B60N2/48
Filed: 1998-12-02
Abstract: A head restraint 13 for a motor vehicle is adapted to undergo pivotal movement between forward and rearward positions and comprises a securing means and a padded headrest 12 covering a support member 11. The securing means holds the head restraint 13, during normal use, between the forward and rearward positions but is arranged to allow movement of the head restraint 13 towards the forward position upon severe deceleration of the motor vehicle. The securing means comprises a helical coil locking member 14 engaged with a transverse support rod 24 forming part of the support member 11, wherein the coil locking member 14 is provided with an end portion 19 extending to form a release lever 20. Rotation of the release lever 20 in a pre-determined direction increases the internal diameter of the coil locking member 14 such that its gripping effect on the transverse support rod 24 is diminished, thereby facilitating rotation of the head restraint 13.
Patent GB-2333677-A (GB)
Title: Encrypting seismic data
Inventor: STRINGER J HAYNIE
IPC: G01V1/22
Filed: 1998-12-14
Abstract: For processing seismic survey data, the data is stored in encrypted format in a first memory module (116). The first memory module (116) is transferred to a first computer (106) in a first location (102). A portion of the seismic survey data is selected using a second computer (108) in the first location (102). The second computer (108) send a request authorisation to the second location (104). A dycryption code is transmitted from the second location (104) to the second computer (108). The decryption code is transferred from the second computer (108) to the first computer (106). The decryption code is applied to the selected portion of seismic survey data in the first computer (106), making available seismic survey data in decrypted format.
Patent GB-2345702-A (GB)
Title: String for a racket
Inventor: YEH YEUH-JUI
IPC: A63B51/02
Filed: 1999-01-13
Abstract: A string 10 for a sports racket includes a core 11 formed of a plurality of core filaments of nylon 111 which are twisted together in a first direction and which are impregnated with a thermoplastic polyurethane resin 112, a moisture-cured polyurethane layer 12 enclosing the core 11, a reinforcing layer 13 formed of a plurality of reinforcing nylon filaments 131 which are disposed side by side in annular rows and which are twisted about the polyurethane layer 12 in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a sheathing layer 14 made of a mixture of silicone and nylon resin and covering the reinforcing layer 13.
Patent GB-2333729-A (GB)
Title: A hand-guided drill with a spindle locking device
Inventor: BIEBER KARIN
IPC: B23B45/16
Filed: 1999-02-01
Abstract: A hand-guided drill or percussion drill is proposed, which comprises a machine housing 26, a drive motor (11, Fig 1) and a tool holder (12, Fig 1). The tool holder constructed as a drill chuck is connected to a drill spindle (13, Fig 1) in such a manner that, during a tool change or when replacing the tool holder (12, Fig 1), a releasing or tightening torque is transmitted to the drill spindle (13, Fig 1). The manual machine tool comprises a locking device 38, by means of which the drill spindle (13, Fig 1) can be automatically locked relative to the housing 26 during a torque transmission from the tool holder to the drill spindle.
Patent GB-2346847-A (GB)
Title: An air bag arrangement
Inventor: LEASK ANDREW
IPC: B60R21/206
Filed: 1999-02-19
Abstract: An airbag arrangement (21) in which a canister frame (22) combines with a lining member (25) in order to define a canister with a stowage space (24) within which an air bag can be stored and from which an air bag is deployed. The lining member (25) being flexible to allow inward deformation in contact with an occupant but being sufficiently robust to resist outward bulging of a part of the canister constituted by that lining member (25) as the air bag is deployed from the stowage space (24).
Patent GB-2338454-A (GB)
Title: Typewriter with a shipping fastener to inhibit unintentional movement of a print wheel carriage during transit of the typewriter
Inventor: HOERAUF THOMAS
IPC: B41J29/02
Filed: 1999-02-26
Abstract: The typewriter includes a print wheel carriage 14 which is fastened against unintentional movement by a shipping fastener 6. The fastener is arranged to engage from the exterior of the typewriter through a recess 7 in a base trough 2. The fastener includes a first portion 10 which enters the path of movement of the carriage to fix it, and a second portion 8 which projects beyond the trough and protrudes sufficiently beyond it that a visible cant is produced when setting up the typewriter such that a user is alerted to remove the fastener before use of the typewriter. The fastener may be removed from the typewriter by rotating the fastener through 90‹ from a locked position (1,Fig.1) to an unlocked position (2,Fig.1) whereat the fastener may be removed.
Patent GB-2348057-A (GB)
Title: An electrical system for an electronic fuel injection motorcycle
Inventor: LEE CHUNG-YIH
IPC: H02J7/14
Filed: 1999-03-15
Abstract: A power management module for use in an electronic fuel injection motorcycle divides the motorcycle's electrical loads and associated circuitry into groups which are each assigned a priority level. Power is supplied from a generator via a rectifier to supply the group of loads having the highest priority which may include for example, the engine control unit, sensor, fuel injector and control relay. When the power requirement of this group of loads is met, the group of loads having the next highest order of priority is supplied with power. This group of loads may include a fuel pump, signalling lamps and horn. The arrangement allows the motorcycle to be started manually more easily if the battery is flat and prevents the operation of loads affecting the operation of the engine whilst it is running.
Patent GB-2336399-A (GB)
Title: Mine stopping door latch
Inventor: KENNEDY WILLIAM R
IPC: E21F1/10
Filed: 1999-03-19
Abstract: A door system 20 for closing a doorway 24 in a mine stopping 26 includes a door 22 hinged relative to the stopping 26. A latch mechanism 60 has a detent portion 90 cooperable with a fixed keeper 70. The latch mechanism 60 is constructed to move the detent portion 90 along a path defined at least in part by an arc centered on a point spaced away from the door 22 whereby, in the event the keeper 70 moves relative to the door 22, as in a mine convergence, the detent portion 90 will remain in substantial engagement with the keeper 70 to maintain the door closed. As shown a quadrilateral linkage is used to support the detent portion but in another embodiment the detent portion is guided by a cam and follower arrangement.
Patent GB-2350790-A (GB)
Title: Inflatable cover for swimming pool
Inventor: HENFREY KENNETH MARDEN
IPC: E04H4/10
Filed: 1999-05-04
Abstract: A swimming pool cover comprises a plastics sheet provided with air cells which can by inflating the cells be caused to float on the pool surface or by deflating the cells allow it to sink to the bottom of the pool. Inflation and deflation can be provided by an electrically driven pump. The whole process can be automated by the addition of suitable valves and a programmer.
Patent GB-2349682-A (GB)
Title: Inlet valve for tanks and cisterns
Inventor: DIAZ-PEREZ CLORINDO
IPC: F16K31/28
Filed: 1999-05-04
Abstract: Inlet valve apparatus 2 for water tanks and W.C. cisterns, comprises an inlet pipe 4 , an inlet 14 preferably at a lower part of the inlet pipe 4, and an outlet arrangement 16 preferably at an upper part of the inlet pipe 4. The outlet arrangement 16 comprises an outlet and seat 18 , a valve member 20 which is movable for opening and closing the outlet 18, and means 22 for controlling the movement of the valve 20. The control means 22 comprises a weight 24 and connector 32 which connects the weight 24, to the valve 20. The inlet valve apparatus 2 being such that water entering and leaving the water tank or W.C. cistern causes the weight 24 to raise and lower in the water tank or W.C. cistern and so causes the valve 20 to move backwards and forwards for opening and closing the outlet 18. The weight (24) comprises an open-top (60, figure 2) container and a buoyancy chamber (62). A counter-balance 70 may be provided and may be adjustable.